Miss Universe 1964, the 13th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 1 August 1964 at the Miami Beach Convention Hall in

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, United States. Corinna Tsopei of Greece was crowned by the outgoing titleholder, Iêda Maria Vargas of Brazil, making her the first and so far only Miss Universe from Greece.

Results

Placements

Contestants

* - María Amalia Ramírez * - Lidia Lidwina Henriquez * - Ria Lubyen * - Gloria Mackh * - Catherine Cartwright * - Danièle Defrere * - Olga Mónica del Carpio Oropeza * - Ângela Vasconcelos * - Mary Rande Holl * -

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* - Annette Dona Kulatunga * - Patricia Herrera Cigna * - Alba Ramírez Plaza * - Dora Marcela Sola * - Iris Anette de Windt * - Yvonne Mortensen * - Clara Chapuseaux Soñé * - Tanya Yela Klein Loffredo * - Brenda Blackler * - Sirpa Wallenius * - Edith Noël * - Marina Kettler * - Corinna Tsopei * - Christine Hughes * - Henny Deul * - Mary Bai * - Thelma Ingvarsdóttir * - Meher Castelino Mistri * - Maurine Elizabeth Lecky * - Ronit Rinat * - Emanuela Stramana * - Beverly Rerrie * - Chizuko Matsumoto * - Mariette Sophie * - Angela Martha Filmer * - Lyndal Ursula Cruickshank * - Edna Park * - Jorunn Nystedt Barun * Okinawa - Toyoko Uehara * - Maritza Montilla * - Miriam Riart * - Miluska Vondrak Steel * - Maria Myrna Panlilio * - Yolanda Rodríguez Machin * - Lana Yu Yi * - Wendy Barrie * - Gail Robinson * - Shin Jung-hyun * - Maria José Ulloa Madronero * - Stella Hadley * - Cynthia Ingrid Dijkstra * - Siv Märta Aaberg * - Sandra Sulser * - Julia Merlene Laurence * - Claudine Younes * - Inçi Duran * -

Bobbi Johnson Barbara Joan "Bobbi" Johnson (born March 24, 1945) is an American former computer application engineer and beauty pageant titleholder who held the Miss USA 1964 title and has competed in the Miss Universe pageant. After winning the Miss District ...

* - Delia Babiak * -

Mercedes Revenga Sonia Mercedes Revenga de la Rosa (born January 21, 1946) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 1964 and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1964 pageant held in Miami B ...

* - Marilyn Joy Samuel

Notes

Debuts

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Name changes

* began competing as Malaysia.

Returns

Last competed in

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1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

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1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

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1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

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1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

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Replacements

* - Doreen Swan was replaced by Wendy Barrie. After running away to marry one of the judges. At this point Doreen was underaged so she and (judge) James Alexander Do Watt Nicoll travelled across America followed by the FBI as they believed she had been kidnapped. Then moved across state lines where it was legal to marry at her age and stayed married for many years.

Withdrawals

* * * - Sandra Correa

Did not compete

* - Vera Wee (Singapore was a part of Malaysia until separated in October 1965.)

Awards

* - Miss Amity (Jeanne Venables) * - Miss Photogenic (Emanuela Stramana) * - Best National Costume (Henny Deul)

General References

References

External links

Miss Universe official website
{{Miss Universe 1964 delegates

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